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1. Salvador Dali

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   Surrealism and Gala
   Dalí formally joined the Parisian Surrealist group, led by André Breton, in 1929. His painting The Great Masturbator (1929) is often cited as a pivotal work marking his full commitment to Surrealist tenets. However, his desire for commercial success and his increasingly theatrical public persona eventually put him at odds with Breton’s more doctrinaire adherence to revolutionary politics.
   In 1934, Breton famously expelled Dalí from the group, supposedly coining the backronym "Avida Dollars" (eager for dollars) to criticize Dalí’s commercial…